Sunday 20th May, 2012
State spent €43m on land worth €500,000
Lack of planning permission reveals failure of McCreevy's decentralisation THE full failure of Charlie McCreevey's decentralisation policy is today revealed as it has emerged the Irish ...
'Hanging garden' joins the club
THE sky will be the limit for Dublin's exclusive members' club Residence as it brings some gold-medal Irish hospitality to garden designer Diarmuid Gavin's towering wonder at this ...
State retirees jump queue for jobs
Health Service Executive , Ireland's largest employer with more than 67,000 direct employees, and another 40,000 in funded healthcare agencies, updated its "Find a job" web pages.In ...
How Ciara finally learnt to fly solo
Independent.ieAfter a marriage break-up, Ciara O'Toole found her wings piloting seaplanes over one of the world's most beautiful lakes, says Anita Guidera CIARA O'Toole didn't dream of ...
Ex-Tallaght Hospital chair 'disappointed' at criticisms
Independent.ieTallaght Hospital 's board said he is "disappointed" in a damning report that said patients were put at risk due to the State's failure to hold the hospital to account.The report ...
Councillors call for disclosure on waste deal
Independent.ieANGRY Dublin city councillors are set to take legal action to try and force the city manager to reveal the details of the controversial multi-million euro deal with Greyhound over its waste ...
Take one chef and one restaurateur -- and add MasterChefs in the making
Independent.ieMICHELIN-starred chef Dylan McGrath and restaurateur Nick Munier will once again be joining forces as judges on MasterChef Ireland 2012 -- and are calling on people with a passion for food to take ...
TD says claims of hardship on €140,000 salary 'very regrettable'
Independent.ieGOVERNMENT TD Aine Collins insisted yesterday that comments she allegedly made at a private meeting with constituents about finding it difficult to live on €140,000 a year were taken totally ...
Ex-FF politician quizzed on alleged extortion attempt
Independent.ieFianna Fail politician is being investigated by gardai for allegedly attempting to extort €100,000 from an official at a government department.The ex-politician is alleged to have threatened to ...
Terry Keane interview left a chill at Abbeville
Independent.ieKeane revealed on The Late Late Show that she was the mistress of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey was "not a barrel of a laughs" at the then family home in Abbeville in Kinsealy, his son ...
Go West and sample the Greenway's attractions
Independent.ieIt is amazing what can be done if everyone in a community pulls together. Lucinda O'Sullivan hears a West side success story EVERY second person I meet tells me they have done, or are off to do ...
Breastfed until she was three, now she's a confident teen
Independent.ieBaffled at the reaction to the 'Time' cover photo, Antonia Leslie found that attachment parenting worked a treat When the cover of Time magazine featured a woman breastfeeding a ...
RTE's Savage under attack from inquiry
Independent.ieTom Savage may be facing an unprecedented vote of no confidence by the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, which is conducting an inquiry into the role played by the Broadcasting Authority of ...
Brian Lenihan leaves €368,290 in his will
Independent.ieLenihan , who was suffering from pancreatic cancer, drew up a simple one-page will on the June 2, 2011, eight days before he died.He left everything to his wife Patricia Ryan, a judge of the Circuit ...
School pickets on polling day
Independent.ieCAMPAIGNERS seeking to protect small rural schools plan to picket in the vicinity of polling booths across the country on referendum day.Organisers say "hundreds" of schools will be ...
Mass exodus from Red Cross board
Independent.ieAt least six members to step down following damning report by Dail committee At least six members of the board of the Irish Red Cross are to leave their posts this month following the publication of ...
Ireland can create its own Zuckerbergs
Independent.ieApple , enthuses about the prospects for start-ups in Dublin. "Irish companies instantly think global because of the size of its market," he tells the Sunday Independent."Ireland has ...
Reality too much to bear for 'Walter Mitty character' facing 10 years in jail
Independent.ieDunnes Stores coat from their Savida range, a beige mac and a green knee-length coat. The tanned brunette with high cheek bones fiddled with her engagement ring on the first day of the trial. She ...
A sea of blue flags as Leinster fans celebrate making of history
Independent.ieTwickenham blended into a flickering blue wave as thousands of flags came out in support of the unprecedented victory."We are attempting to create some sort of a dynasty, something to be ...
Top lawyer accuses Fine Gael of 'double standards'
Independent.ieFine Gael party chiefs red-faced and angry when he accused the party of double standards in relation to political funding, singling out "at least 15 recorded donations" to the party in ...
Garda helicopter scrambled for school prank that went too far
Independent.ieTHE garda helicopter was 'scrambled' after an end-of-year 'prank' involving one of Dublin's top rugby schools got completely out of control.School pupils at St Mary's ...
Pat Rabbitte denies saying 'Government has no plan'
Independent.iePat Rabbitte has said that the Government is unable to formulate a plan to deal with the economy such is the speed and ever-changing nature of the crisis.In an alarmingly frank admission, which was ...
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